The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Attached below are two very important reports by two of the most astute observers of conflicts in the Middle East. The first is a precisely-focused report by Rami Khouri, editor at large of Lebanon’s Daily Star. Khouri analyzes how the recent assassination of Mohamad Chatah needs to be interpreted in the context of complexities of …
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Below, Seumas Milne well summarizes the calamitous results of our misbegotten GWOT* crusades in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria. The result is not pretty, but that is hardly surprising. While Milne’s call for accountability applies to the British contribution to the GWOT, it bespeaks volumes for the United States — a country that prides itself on its …
Intelligence Studies Section Panels at ISA 2014 26-29 March 2014 in Toronto, Canada See below for the program of the Intelligence Studies Section (ISS) at the annual International Studies Association (ISA) conference taking place 26-29 March 2014 in Toronto, Canada. ISS is one of 27 subject matter sections that make up the ISA. ISS has …
A Reckless Disregard for Truth and Sanity The Syrian Guns of August by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, Counterpunch, December 1, 2013 http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/12/10/the-syrian-guns-of-august/ Remember the thumping of Obama’s war drums for a US attack on Syria last August and September, including his spokesmen’s absurd invocations of Kosovo as a precedent for a limited cruise missile strike on Syria? The …
Climate Summit Trap: Capitalism’s March toward Global Collapse An Essay by Harald Welzer The Warsaw conference demonstrated that the “climate summit” model is broken and, more importantly, that capitalism itself is driving us to the brink. Protests are not the solution — it’s time to fight the system using its own weapons. The municipal utility …
My friend, Bill Polk, a distinguished historian specializing in the Middle East, is busily writing a series of extended essays aimed at increasing our understanding of the conflict in Syria and, by extension, our seemingly perpetual war with the Islamic world. I posted the first part of this series, collectively entitled Understanding Syria, on 8 …
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot’s prison letters to Slavoj Žižek Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is currently in a prison hospital in Siberia; here she and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek meet in an extraordinary exchange of letters • Pussy Riot: composer Cecilie Ore’s choral tribute to the punk band Slavoj Žižek, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova The Guardian, Friday 15 …
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